On February 17, 1997, the Government of the Indian State of Maharashtra awarded P&O Australia, part of the P&O group,1 a contract to build an international port at Vadhavan - a small fishing village at the Dahanu region - 120 km north of Bombay.2 The planned port would have been, when completed, the biggest deep-water port in India. Despite its close distance to the metropolis of Bombay, the area of Dahanu remained mostly "green," hosting a rich diversity of plants and wild animals. It is considered the "lung" of the crowded and over-polluted Bombay. The construction of the port would have caused massive damage to Dahanu's fragile ecosystem
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